Raymond Chandler Speaking
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| Author | Raymond Chandler; edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Literary criticism |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Released | 1962 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, 1962, and paperback, 1997) |
| Pages | 275 (pb) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-520-20835-8 (pb) |
Raymond Chandler Speaking is a collection of letter excerpts, various notes, essays and an unfinished novel. It was compiled in 1962 by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
[edit] Contents
Apart from excerpts from letters by Chandler on a variety of subjects, including literature, film, fellow writers and cats, the collection contains the following larger pieces (previously unpublished except as noted):
- "Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel"
- "Notes on English and American Style"
- "Writers in Hollywood" (previously published in the Atlantic Monthly)
- "Ten Per Cent of Your Life" (Atlantic Monthly)
- "A Couple of Writers"
- "The Poodle Springs Story"
"The Poodle Springs Story" is a Philip Marlowe novel Chandler left unfinished at his death in 1959. It was completed in 1989 by Robert B. Parker as Poodle Springs.
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The works of Raymond Chandler |
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| Novels: | The Big Sleep | Farewell, My Lovely | The High Window | The Lady in the Lake | The Little Sister | The Long Goodbye | Playback | Poodle Springs |
| Short story collections: | Fingerman and Other Stories | The Simple Art of Murder | Killer in the Rain |
| Other collections: | Raymond Chandler Speaking | Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler | Chandler Before Marlowe |
| Screenplays: | Double Indemnity | And Now Tomorrow | The Unseen | The Blue Dahlia | Strangers on a Train | Playback |
